“IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE”? ONE IN TEN!

“IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE”?

The answer lies quite simply in, Luke 17: 11-19

Only one in ten will listen, believe, and be Saved! The other nine will wander off dazed and confused and be known as “Ye of little Faith”!

It’s taken me these past 14 years to come to the above conclusion. After starting the Addiction Crucifixion Fellowship ministry in the year 2000 at the prompting of God to share His truth about addiction recovery according to His Word amongst fellow Christians, it’s become quite clear that the majority of the human race has no desire or interest in The Truth. Most of the world has created its own many forms of truth to fulfill the lusts of their sinful nature. Since Christ’s journey here amongst us 2000 years ago, man has ignored and rejected anyone who’s attempted to “rock their boat”! It is no different in the addiction recovery ministry, whether in worldly secular 12 step programs such as AA, or trying to share God’s Truth in our Churches, 9 out of 10 are like those mentioned in the parable in Luke 17:11-19, unwilling to “give glory to God”!   

When I started this ministry, many Christians were being misled by the lies of secular 12 step programs such as AA that had infiltrated into our Churches. It’s taken me these past 14 years to come to the above conclusion. I began writing my book, Saved and Sober about 5 years ago, long before I started using Facebook. I finished and published it about 1 year ago, and now after 3 years on Facebook I’ve come to the conclusion that only one in ten are listening to, reading, or paying any attention to anything I say or write regarding The Truth, or they just don’t care! Am I surprised? Not at all, few are reading or paying any attention to God’s Word in the Bible either. They never have! Few would listen to, or follow Jesus. They still aren’t!

Man has not changed, only given more chances to do so. Eventually his time will run out and he will be forced to suffer the consequences he has been promised since he was Created!       Amen!  

Is God Blessing America,…or is satan destroying us?

Somehow since 1776 Americans have lost sight of the true meaning of “God Bless America”! Today 90 % of Americans think God is blessing us because of our health, wealth, and welfare. Millions are celebrating today what they think is freedom and blessings from God, because they’re working to make payments on a big beautiful house filled with leather furniture and electronic gadgets, with a driveway and garage filled with fancy vehicles filled with leather upholstery and electronic gadgets, when in reality all this junk is from satan to entrap us into believing we are blessed, and some even believe it means they’re saved! None of it could be further from the Truth, which is that God Blesses those who surrender their lives to, and follow His Son, and live by His Word! America couldn't be further away from that simple premise! I’m a Veteran who proudly served my country in the 60’s in spite of witnessing my commander-in-chief being assassinated by the next in his succession! Then that commander-in-chief sending us to war with a country that was no more of a threat to us than a mosquito with the West Nile Virus! All for the sake of financial gains! Since that fateful day in November 1963 I've regretfully watched this country snuggle up closer and closer to satan as its citizens bury their heads deeper and deeper into the sand! Instead of fireworks, parades, and barbecues, Americans should be at The Cross of Jesus, on their knees, asking for forgiveness for their sin and the sin of a country that’s been following satan for far too long! Then maybe “God will Bless America”!  

30 YEARS AGO & COUNTING !

July 4^th 2014 as posted on Facebook ; Today is a special day for me to celebrate freedom! Not the same freedom that all Americans are celebrating today, but a freedom that very few drunkards and drug addicts get to celebrate. And I do so only because of the Love and Grace of Jesus Christ ! Certainly NOT because of any false teachings found in any of our popular 12-step addiction recovery programs that typically keep addicts in the bondage of relapse for the rest of their lives or in the fear of relapse! READ MORE.....

30 YEARS AGO & COUNTING

A SUMMARY (NOT A TESTIMONY)

Addiction recovery meetings in churches, no matter how many, or for how long you attend them, will never be successful without the Truth and presence of God, and God’s presence cannot be found in the midst of false teachings and unrepentant and disobedient hearts. God has provided us with all we need to live a clean and sober life. He’s given us His Word, The Bible and The Truth, He’s sacrificed His Son on The Cross for the forgiveness of our sinful nature and drunkenness, and he’s given each of us the free choice to choose Eternal Life with Him, or death and destruction with satan. After 30 years of sobriety, and 28 years of freedom in the arms of my Savior Jesus Christ, I know that I cannot make that decision for anyone, but can only share His truth with those who will listen! My prayer is that you are one of them!     

30 years ago today I had my last drink! After having spent most of the previous 40 years drunk or high or both, I had had enough! God had a different plan for my life. Soon afterwards I began attending AA meetings to share God’s Good News with others who needed to hear it. It took several years of hostility and rejection to realize that very few in AA wanted anything to do with God’s Truth, so I turned my focus towards other Christians in Churches around the area. Little did I know that I would encounter much of the same hostility and rejection of God’s Truth in His own church! By many men and women who claimed to know Him, but refused to trust and obey Him! They had already been poisoned by a church that had been poisoned by centuries of false teachings by false teachers that had created a new age false church. A church that believes and teaches that one can be Saved without repentance, through a false Grace message! If you are one of these millions of lost souls on the “wide road” to destruction, who have been mislead into believing that “it’s OK to sin,” because of this, that, or the other foolish excuse, you need to re-evaluate your relationship with God! Grace is a gift from God to an undeserving person who is willing to repent, and turn from following the world, to following God and His Word!  Repentance is not a form of works, but a condition of Salvation. To continue in any sin, including that of “drunkenness,” and make excuses for it, is not a sign of repentance, but of disobedience! To disobey God, is to reject Him. Yes, we are all sinners for which the penalty is death. Each of us however, has been given the choice of a pardon by accepting Christ’s sacrifice on the cross as a payment for our sins “IF” we accept Him as our Lord and Savior! To accept Him we must change, and to change is to repent! There are many “IF’S” scattered throughout the Bible that tell us that “IF” we’re obedient, we will be Saved and blessed in a number of ways. And that “IF” we’re disobedient, we will suffer the consequences! “IF” we believe and profess our Faith, we will be Saved. God’s Word is perfectly clear! Man’s interpretation of it can be completely misunderstood! Man’s sinful nature completely twists what is right, into what is wrong, what is wrong, into something right, Truth into lies, and lies into truth! After centuries of this phenomenon, we must be very near the end as prophesied thousands of years ago.        

During the past 30 years I’ve attended thousands of addiction recovery meetings in dozens of churches and other facilities and listened to thousands of professing Christians claim to know and Love Jesus, yet refuse to show a mustard seed of Faith, and trust Him and His Promise to “set them free” from their addictions. Instead they will spend years in ignorance of God’s Word, rather listening to false teachings and man’s ideas on how to recover and be “healed” from a disease they don’t have, through 12 steps of futile, meaningless, and fruitless endeavors, that will only, and consequently lead to the suffering of continuous relapse.

To consider oneself a Christian, and then follow man’s blind advice and ignorance in a matter as important and deadly as drug and alcohol use and abuse and addiction, is suicidal! Yet during the past 30 years I’ve witnessed thousands who put more Faith and trust in the AA 12-step program, than in God’s Holy Word, The Truth! I’ve listened to thousands of people share their testimonies of misfortune and shattered lives as a result of drug and alcohol addictions, yet refuse to recognize and accept the blatant misconceptions and false teachings of the AA 12 step programs. Instead, defending them and continuing to participate in them, rather than surrendering fully to God’s Word and the Ministry of Jesus Christ!